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Snuggle Up with Mother Goose

Iona Opie · Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages: 26
Format: Hardcover

Lap reading with babies means sharing sweet verses like these beloved Mother Goose rhymes.

Books and vibrant language are vitally important early learning tools. With that in mind, selected poems from Iona Opie's classic Mother Goose nursery-rhyme compilations are gathered here in a sturdy,...
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The Journey

Francesca Sanna · Flying Eye Books
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page...

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The Farmer's Away! Baa! Neigh!

Anne Vittur Kennedy · Candlewick Pr
Pages: 24
Format: Book

When you see a horse, say neigh The animal sounds tell the story in an infectiously rhythmic picture book that's a delight to read aloud. What mischief do the animals get up to when the farmer's back is turned? Anne Vittur Kennedy lets us know in the animals' own words There will be boating,...
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Pearl

Molly Schaar Idle · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Caldecott Honor author-illustrator Molly Idle dazzles with an original mermaid tale about how small, persistent actions can achieve great things.

Sometimes the tiniest light can shine the brightest! Like the other mermaids of the deep, Pearl longs to care for the endless beaches,...
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Feather

CAO WENXUAN · Elsewhere Editions
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

A philosophical picture book from one of China's most celebrated children's authors and 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award-winner Cao Wenxuan.

A feather is blown across the sky, meeting various birds along the way, and asking each one, "Do I belong to you?".

Cao...
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Geraldine the Music Mouse

Leo Lionni · Pantheon Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

The cheerful celebration of art, music, and cheese from beloved four-time Caldecott Honor-winner Leo Lionni.

While nibbling at a huge hunk of parmesan cheese, Geraldine uncovers a cheese statue of a mouse playing what seems to be a flute but on closer inspection is really its tail....
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Lawrence: The Bunny Who Wanted to Be Naked

Vern Kousky · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 40
Format: Library Binding

In this funny, charming, and oh-so-relatable picture book, meet a young bunny named Lawrence who is determined to decide what he wears--or doesn't wear.Ever since he was a tiny bunny, Lawrence's mother has dressed him up in all the most fashionable clothes--the brightest colors...
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From Here to There

Sue Fliess · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Here and There are so similar they're practically twins. But they could never play together because Here is always here and There is always there, so they become pen pals and write to each other all the time. One day, There gets an idea that could change the distance between them forever.
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The Giant Jumperee

Julia Donaldson · Dial Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Two of the world's most celebrated picture book creators, Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury, team up for the first time in this jaunty animal fable for fans of Room on the Broom and We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Rabbit arrives home one day to hear a loud voice coming...
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Shapes, Reshape!: A Minibombo Book

Silvia Borando · Candlewick Press
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

The shapes in this book get mixed up, moved around, and reshaped into all kinds of animals. But can you guess which animal before they reshape?

When you mix up certain shapes and move them around, do you know what buzzy things they reshape into? Ten fluttering dragonflies!...
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Freckleface Strawberry and the really big voice

Julianne Moore · Doubleday
Format: Print book

After a noisy summer, Freckleface Strawberry and her friends return to school where the only time they should be loud is at recess, but Windy Pants Patrick cannot remember to use his indoor voice, and that comes in handy before the day is through.
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Poppy, Buttercup, Bluebell, and Dandy

FIONA WOODCOCK · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Watch a gorgeous garden bloom and grow in this enchanting new picture book from rising star Fiona Woodcock!

A group of beautiful and feisty young wildflowers on skateboards and scooters zoom through the pages of this stunning book, spreading flower seeds as they go. Together they...
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Rescue Squad No. 9

Mike Austin · Random House
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

In this companion book to Fire Engine No. 9, Rescue Squad No. 9 must spring into action when a young sailor and her dog are stranded during a storm!

Follow the crew as they scramble aboard their helicopter and speedboat, racing to the rescue through the waves and winds....
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Holy Squawkamole!: Little Red Hen Makes Guacamole

Susan Wood · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

This tasty take on the classic Little Red Hen story has a deliciously spicy twist! Yum, guacamole! That's what Little Red Hen craves, and she could use some help gathering and mashing the ingredients. So she asks her friends, including an armadillo, snake, and iguana, to lend a hand....
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Lola Gets a Cat

ANNA MCQUINN · Charlesbridge
Pages: 28
Format: Paperback

Lola wants a cat, but Mommy says taking care of a pet is a lot of work. So Lola does her homework. At the library she finds books about cats and pet care and she and Mommy learn as much as they can. She pretends her stuffed kitty is real and practices taking care of it. When the time comes,...
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